Geffen Playhouse Unscripted

Geffen Playhouse has become a world-renowned hub for theater and culture. Now, through its new podcast, "Geffen Playhouse Unscripted," listeners from around the world will enjoy exclusive, behind-the-scenes audio tours not only of the Geffen's widely-acclaimed productions, but also hear conversations with some of today's most compelling creative voices. Hosted by former Newsweek and Los Angeles Times journalist and KPCC radio host John Horn, the series will primarily be composed of unscripted interviews that explore the art and craft of live storytelling, the creative process, professional milestones, personal challenges, timely topics and more. Drawn from the Geffen's deep community of artists, guests will be prominent personalities, including The Office's Rainn Wilson, Transparent's Jeffrey Tambor, actress and music artist Rita Wilson, Two Broke Girls' Beth Behrs, This is Us' Ron Cephas Jones, director and producer Jon Favreau and more.

LATEST EPISODE

Actress Saffron Burrows comes straight from rehearsal to join John and discuss her new one woman play, "Jackie Unveiled", what a wonderful challenge it is, how to discover new challenges, and understanding that the joy of acting isn't just portraying devastation.

Past Episodes

Actor Judd Hirsch joins John to talk about his long acting career, the hilarious limits of working on TV in the 70's, doing voiceover, acting as living truthfully and not lying, not being right for anything but acting, going from Broadway to England, and working consistently for 56 years.

Actor Elliott Gould joins John to talk about getting his career started, working with Robert Altman and Ingmar Bergman, his latest film "Humor Me", what it means to support your director, and whether he will return to the theater. CBS' 9JKL airs Mondays at 9:30pm e/t.

Actress Marin Ireland sits down with John to talk about her current play at the Geffen, "Ironbound", developing HR for the Arts to help deal with harassment in the industry, misrepresentation in entertainment, and the feeling of coming in to save a show at the last minute.

Actor Harry Lennix joins John to talk about meeting his wife during his critically acclaimed Broadway debut, directing for the theater, the relevance of black playwrights today, the importance of agitating the status quo, and his exciting upcoming projects.

Hulu's "The Path" creator and showrunner Jessica Goldberg joins John to talk about what life is like as a writer, her beginnings as a playwright, seeing her first Broadway play, the writers that have influenced her, and how her show has affected its real-life viewers.

Actor Omar Metwally joins John to talk about the shocking finale of Mr. Robot, beginning his film career with Steven Spielberg, his time on Broadway, performing a 35 minute monologue, and how he prepares for a role.

Actor Michael Emerson joins John Horn via Skype to talk about his young departure and rediscovery of acting, finding himself in Shakespeare, the excitement of acting challenges, working on LOST, Arrow, and figuring out how to do theater vs television.

John talks with actor Michael Cerveris about his getting started in second grade in a Brecht play, falling in love with acting, going to Exeter, picking up the guitar, and taking a chance on "The Who's Tommy". Plus, why he's donning a pig mask for Fox's "Gotham".